Grain-drill.



PATENTED JUNE 19, 1906. P. M. GUNDLAGIL GRAIN DRILL.

PHILIP M. GUNYDLAOQH," OF BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS.

' I GRAIN-DRILL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1906.

Application filed December 8,1905. Serial No. 290,918.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, PHILIP M. GUNDLAOH, a

' citizen of the United States of America, and a Drills, of which the fol resident of Belleville, in'the county of'St. Clair and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grainowing is a specification.

The present invention .relates to graindrills having a series of flukes or like graindepositing means for depositing the grain or seed in the ground, and has forits object to rovide a simple and efiicient structural formation and arrangement of parts whereby the flukes or like seed-depositing means are enabled to automatically release themselves from accumulations of weeds or the like, which in the ordinary operation of a grain-drill requires a stoppage of the ma chine and a dislodgment such accumulations by hand, all as will hereainafter more fully appear and be more ed out1n the claims. v V In the accompanying drawings illustrative particularly pointof the present invention, Figure 1 is afrag-.

mentary sectional elevation of a grain-drill; and Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of the same, illustrating the drag-bars and flukes in their normal and-deflected ositions.

Similar numerals 0 reference indicate like their rear ends to the flukes in the usual manner and forked'at their forward ends to form separated attaching members '6 for engagement with individual attaching hooks or staples 7 on thedrag-rail3 aforesaid.

The present invention involves in abroad sense an attachment of the drag-bars 5 to the drag-rail 3 in a manner which admits of a lateral horizontal movement of their rear ends and of the flukes or like seed-depositing means carried by said drag-bar and so that when the ordinary and normal space between a pair of the flukes becomes clogged up with an accumulation of weeds or the like the said flukes will spread apart automatically under the undue stress set up by such accumulations to allow said accumulations to pass return automatically to the normal position. In the accompanying drawings I illustrate my preferred arrangement for effecting the sists in forming the attaching-eyes 8 at the drag-bars 5 of an elongated form, as shown.

Other equivalent means may be employed without departing from the scope of the presinvention, and among which may be mentioned enlarged eyes instead of the elongated eyes shown in the drawings.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv

1'. The combination of a grain-drill frame, a drag-rail, a series of seed-depositing means, a series of drag-bars connecting the series of seed-depositing means to the drag-rail, and an attachment for the drag-bars to the dragrail aflording lateral horizontal movement to the seed-depositing means, substantially as set forth;

2. The combination of a grain-drill frame, a drag-rail, a series of seed-depositing means, a series of'dragbars connecting the series of such depositing means to the drag-rail, and an attachment for the drag-bars to the dragrail affording lateral horizontal movement to the seed-depositing means, the same comprising attaching-staples on the drag-rail and elongated eyes inthe forward ends of the drag-bars, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of a grain-drill frame, a drag-rail, a series of seed-depositin flukes, a series of drag-bars connecting said ukes to the drag-rail, and an attachment for the drag barsto the drag-rail affording lateral horizontal movementto theflukes, substantially as set forth. a

- 4. The combination of a grain-drill frame, a drag-rail, a series of seed-depositin flukes, a series of drag-bars connecting said ukes to the drag-rail, and an attachment for the drag bars to the drag-rail afiording lateral horizontal movement to the flukes, the same comprising attaching-staples on the drag-rail and elongated eyes in the forward ends of the drag-bars, substantially as set forth.-

Signed at Belleville, Illinois, this 27th day of November,,1905.

- PHILIP M. GUN DLACI-I. Witnesses:

GUSTAV N EUMANN,

SEvERN POIRAT.

between the flukes, after which the flukes will above-described operation, and which conforward ends of the forked members 6 of the 

